In message <[email protected]>, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote:
> *) Violation(s) of out-of-region usage policy. > > >Such has not to my knowledge (and quite unlikely to occur, as "ARIN registered >resources may be used outside the ARIN service region." ><https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#9-out-of-region-use> Thank you John. I just want to be sure that I am clear on this point. The relevant section of the NRPM, which you linked to, states: "Out of region use of ARIN registered resources are valid justification for additional number resources, provided that the applicant has a real and substantial connection with the ARIN region which applicant must prove (as described below) ..." "A real and substantial connection shall be defined as carrying on business in the ARIN region in a meaningful manner." (A lengthy list of possible means of demonstrating exactly such a "substantial connection" to the region is then elaborated.) The above, together with your statement, leaves me with two questions: 1) The NRPM Section 9 verbiage I have quoted above is explicit in placing a restriction upon ARIN, apparently prohibiting it from assigning "additional number resources" to applicants that lack "a real and substantial {and provable} connection with the ARIN region". Perhaps I am just reading too much into this, but the way in which this section of the NRPM is worded certainly appears to give license to ARIN to provide *initial* assignments/allocations of number resources to parties or entities that entirely lack any real, substantial, and/or provable connection with the ARIN region, and that the NRPM policy, as written, only prohibits ARIN from provding resources to entities or parties which have no substantial connection to the region AND that are coming back for "additional" resources, presumably after they have already been assigned some such by ARIN. Am I reading that right and is that your interpretation also? 2) Am I to understand that in the entire history of ARIN, or at least in the entire history of the above-quoted in-region "substantial connection" requirement, there have actually been a grand total of zero instances in which any party or entity had their ARIN resources reclaimed on the basis that the party or entity in question was found to have no substantial connection to the region? As should be apparent, this latter point/question may have some relevance to the ongoing controversies wthin the AFRINIC region. If other regions are not enforcing any of their own written geography-based policies then that fact alone would seem to make the argument that AFRINIC should follow suit, and should not do so either, at least somewhat more logically defensible. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
